[1] Born in Portsmouth, in Saint John Parish, Dominica, Lennox Honychurch can trace his lineage in the Caribbean back to the 1790s.
[3] After publishing several works on the history of Dominica, he was awarded the Chevening Scholarship[4] to study at Oxford University, where he gained a PhD at St. Hugh's College.
[5] Honychurch has also worked as an actor, including having a role in the 1991 television miniseries The Orchid House, produced and directed by Horace Ové, based on the novel of the same name by Phyllis Shand Allfrey.
[5] He is developing an ecology and heritage center in the history buildings around Fort Shirley, an 18th-century garrison in Dominica's Cabrits National Park.
This work includes training tour guides and providing education on sustainable, responsible tourism for communities around heritage sites.